Blue as the midnight heavens, the frail snow-drop,

Born of the breath of winter, and on his brow,

Fixed like a pale and solitary star,

The languid hyacinth, and wild primrose,

And daisy, trodden down like modesty,

The fox-glove, in whose drooping-bells the bee

Makes her sweet music: the Narcissus, named

From him who died for love, the tangled woodbine

Lilacs and flowering limes, and scented thorns,

And some from whom the voluptuous winds of June